Morden is a district and town in south London, England, within the

London Borough of Merton The London Borough of Merton () is a borough in Southwest London, England. The borough was formed under the London Government Act 1963 in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton ...

, in the

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of Greater London. It adjoins

Merton Park Merton Park is a suburb in the London Borough of Merton. It is situated between Colliers Wood, Morden, South Wimbledon and Raynes Park. It is 11 miles (11.7 km) southwest of Charing Cross. The area is part of the historic parish of Merton i ...

and

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to the north,

Mitcham Mitcham is an area within the London Borough of Merton in South London, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross. Originally a village in the county of Surrey, today it is mainly a residential suburb, and includes Mitcham Common. It ha ...

to the east,

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to the south and

Worcester Park Worcester Park is a suburban town in South London, South West London, England. It lies in the Boroughs of London, London boroughs of London Borough of Sutton, Sutton and Royal Borough of Kingston, Kingston, and partly in the Surrey borough of Ep ...

to the west, and is around south-southwest of

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. Prior to the creation of

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in 1965, for local government purposes, Morden was in the

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and historic county of

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. At the 2011 Census, Morden had a population of 48,233, including the wards of Cannon Hill,

Lower Morden Lower Morden is an area within the district of Morden in south west corner of the London Borough of Merton, to the west of Morden Park and south of Raynes Park. History Until it was absorbed by the suburban expansion of the 1930s, the hamlet of ...

, Merton Park, Ravensbury and St Helier.

Morden Hall Park Morden Hall Park is a National Trust park on the banks of the Wandle in Morden, south London. Its several buildings and associated parking included, it is of predominantly parkland. Hinting at the former mill leats the river here splits int ...

, a

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park on the banks of the

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adjacent to the town centre, is a key feature of the area.

Origin of name

Morden's name may be derived from the

Common Brittonic Common Brittonic ( cy, Brythoneg; kw, Brythonek; br, Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, was a Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany. It is a form of Insular Celtic, descended from Proto-Celtic, a ...

words ''Mawr'' (great or large) and ''Dun'' (fort), or possibly "The Town on the Moor".

History

Early history

Human activity in Morden dates back to the

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period when

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ic tribes are known to have occupied areas around

, but the first significant development in Morden was the construction of the

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called Stane Street from

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to London. The route of Stane Street through Morden followed the current

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, London Road up Stonecot Hill from the south west crossing

Morden Park Morden Park is an area within the district of Morden in the London Borough of Merton, and includes the Park itself, an area of green space in an otherwise dense cluster of 1930s suburban housing. The present park and sports fields between Hillc ...

to the west of the current

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road and passing through the pitch and putt golf course and the grounds of St Lawrence's Church. The road then descended the other side of the hill towards the town centre passing west of the

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and crossing the north corner of

heading in the direction of

Colliers Wood Colliers Wood is an area in south west London, England, in the London Borough of Merton. It is a mostly residential area, but has a busy high street around Colliers Wood tube station on London Underground's Northern line. The high street is part ...

and

Tooting Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth and partly in the London Borough of Merton. It is located south south-west of Charing Cross. History Tooting has been settled since pre- Saxon times ...

. Small

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artifacts, mainly coins and pottery, have been found at various locations within the area although there is no evidence of any settlement. Ethelstan the Etheling, son of Ethelred the Unready, left "land at Mordune" to the

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of Christ and St. Peter in his will of 1015, which became the site of the first

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parish church of

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. In 1086, the

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recorded the manor as ''Mordone'', part of Wallington

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. It was held by

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and its assets were: 3 hides; 1

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worth £2 and 7

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s. It rendered £15 in total. Fourteen people were recorded as living in the area.

The Garth family

The manor and village remained abbey property until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in

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's reign when the manor was sold to Lionel Ducket and Edward Whitchurch. Together, they sold it on the following year to Sir Richard Garth who became

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.'Parishes: Morden', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4 (1912), pp. 235–37.
/ref> The Garth family owned the land and maintained their connection with the parish for the next four centuries, living at

until the manor was sold by another Sir

Richard Garth Sir Richard Garth PC QC (11 May 1820 – 23 March 1903) was Member of Parliament for Guildford from 1866 to 1868 and Chief Justice of Bengal from 1875 to 1886. Early life Garth was born Richard Lowndes at Morden, Surrey (now south-west Lond ...

in 1872. The prominence of the Garth family is recorded locally in the name of Garth Road,

and the former Garth School. The two lions included in the present civic

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of the

are adopted from the arms of Sir Richard.

19th century

Despite the rapid suburban development of nearby

occasioned by the arrival of the new railways constructed in the mid 19th century, Morden remained a rural parish throughout the 19th century. While the population of

grew hugely from 1,591 in 1801 to 41,652 in 1901, the population of Morden was 512 in 1801 and, one hundred years later, had grown to just 960.UK Census records In 1871, the area of the parish of Morden was

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map, 1871 edition with the small village clustered around St Lawrence's church at the top of the hill on the road from London to

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(now London Road/Epsom Road). Approximately half a mile to the west of the main village and the grounds of

stood the hamlet of

. Close to the church were the George Inn, a 17th-century

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(now modernised and part of a national pub restaurant chain), the estate of

and a school. The other main public house in the village was the Crown Inn, located to the north east of the village with a small cluster of cottages on Crown Road. The rest of what is now the commercial centre of Morden was fields. In the late 19th century the principal industry remained agriculture, although some industrial activity did exist along the

where

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s ground tobacco to

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and a varnish works existed close to the site of Poplar Primary School. By 1898, the varnish works had gone and there was a

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Ordnance Survey map, 1898 edition on the site of Mostyn Gardens in Martin Way (then called Green Lane).

20th century

Under the Local Government Act, 1894, the parish of Morden formed part of the

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. The first two decades of the 20th century saw little change in the village, with industry still mainly agricultural in nature; however, development in the parish of Merton to the north led to that area being removed from the

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to form the

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in 1907. Morden was merged with the Merton Urban District in 1913 to form the

Merton and Morden Urban District Merton Urban District (1907–1913) and Merton and Morden Urban District (1913–1965) was an urban district in Surrey, England. It was formed in 1907 from the parish of Merton and was expanded in 1913 to take in Morden. The district was abolished ...

.VisionofBritain.org.uk
/ref> It was not until 1926, when Morden Underground station opened as the terminus of a new extension (from Clapham Common) of the

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(now part of the

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), that the fast and direct route to Central London opened up the village for residential development. File:Mordenmap 1920s.png, A map of Morden from the 1920s File:Morden map 1944.jpg, A map of Morden from 1944 To complement the new tube station, a garage was constructed on the other side of London Road, adjacent to the railway cutting and, in 1932, Morden Cinema was built next to it on the corner of Aberconway Road. Around the station, which, itself, had several shops built into the building, a new adjacent commercial centre grew quickly as shops sprang up along London Road and Crown Lane, including a rebuilt and enlarged Crown public house (opened in 1932)my merton, issue 17, June–July 2006, p. 17
/ref> and a large

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(RACS) department store (opened in 1940). Away from the new commercial centre of Morden, the existing rural roads were widened and rebuilt and the fields were rapidly divided into building plots and laid out for new housing. Further transport improvements came with the construction of a new Southern Railway branch line from Wimbledon to Sutton via stations at

South Merton South Merton railway station is located in Morden, the administrative centre of the London Borough of Merton in South London. The station is served by Thameslink trains on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. History Parliamentary ...

and Morden South (so named to differentiate it from Morden Underground Station and Morden Road (now Morden Road tram stop), although it was actually north east of the original village centre). The new line opened between January 1930 and 1933. As a result of the new train and bus links, the population of Morden increased rapidly, from 1,355 in 1921 to 12,618 in 1931. In the next fifteen years, the population continued to grow, as most of the parish was covered in new suburban homes. One of the main residential developments in the 1930s was the

St. Helier St Helier (; Jèrriais: ; french: Saint-Hélier) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. St Helier has a population of 35,822 – over one-third of the total population of Jersey – ...

estate, built by the

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(LCC) to house workers from Inner London and named in honour of Lady St. Helier, an

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of the LCC. The estate was at the time the largest local authority development in South London and has its road names arranged in alphabetical order, from the north-west corner (

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Road) to the south-east corner ( Woburn Road). Reflecting the previous ownership of the land by

, all are named after religious establishments. 1960's Morden town centre

In 1943, the council was granted a civic

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incorporating lions from the Garth family arms and the fret from the arms of

Merton Priory Merton Priory was an English Augustinian priory founded in 1114 by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey under King Henry I (1100–1135). It was situated within the manor of Merton in the county of Surrey, in what is today the Colliers Wood area ...

. The motto, ''"In Libertate Vis"'', means ''"Our Strength is our Freedom"''. In 1965, under the

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, the Merton and Morden Urban District Council was abolished and its area combined with that of the

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and the

Municipal Borough of Mitcham Mitcham was a local government district in north east Surrey from 1915 to 1965 around the town of Mitcham. History Mitcham local government district was created in 1915 as an urban district from part of the abolished Croydon Rural District. It ga ...

to form the present-day London Borough of Merton.

Today

Despite London's suburban expansion, a little of the earlier rural nature of Morden has survived; for instance several grand period buildings remain, especially within Morden's parks. The area retains a good provision of parks and green spaces, many of them created from former country estates. The 125 acre

is of particular note and is run by the

(see below). Its main entrance is only a quarter-of-a-mile from Morden Underground Station. The largest building in the town centre is Crown House, sixties-built and 14 storeys tall; designed in 1959 by A. Green ARIBA and built between 1960 and 1962. The concaved frontage of the building lends it some distinction, as does the "chessboard" style juxtaposition of its light and dark facade features. It incorporated The Crown

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, on which site part of the building covered. The building is home to

Merton Civic Centre Merton Civic Centre is a municipal building in London Road, Morden, London. It is the headquarters of Merton London Borough Council. History The main building was originally commissioned on a speculative basis by a developer, Bernard Sunley & S ...

and a large adjoining library. At around the same time, Morden Underground Station, originally a single storey building, with shops, had three-storey office accommodation incorporated above it. A further office building with a large supermarket (now a

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) at ground-floor level was built in the 1980s at the other end of the town centre. The cinema and adjoining garage were demolished and replaced by shops some years ago.

Landmarks

Morden plays host to a number of buildings and parks worthy of note including: Baitul Futuh back

*The Bait'ul Futuh Mosque, the largest mosque in Western Europe, built by the

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Ahmadiyya (, ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ, ar, الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah; ur, , translit=Jamā'at Aḥmadiyyah Musl ...

. Completed in 2003 at a cost of approximately £5.5 million, the mosque covers an area of 5.2 acres (21,000 m2) and the full complex can accommodate up to 10,000 worshippers. It is located next to Morden South railway station and approximately 700 yards from Morden Underground station. *

is a key feature of the Morden area with large, period buildings located within its boundaries. It is a

park, and is located on the banks of the

, near the town centre and few hundred yards from Morden Underground station. It covers over 50ha (125 acres) of parkland with the River Wandle meandering through it spanned by numerous foot-bridges. The estate contains a number of historic buildings including Morden Hall itself, Morden Cottage, an old Snuff Mill, and many old farm buildings, some of which are now a garden centre and a city farm. The rose garden has over 2000 roses. The estate land was originally owned by Westminster Abbey. There is evidence of an earlier manor-house, but Morden Hall dates back to the 1770s and contains a variety of natural landscapes, including the parkland of the "Deer Park", meadow and marshland. Morden Park House

, another park containing a period building of note. The park includes land that previously formed the grounds of Morden Park House, a small 18th-century country estate. The Georgian country house was built at the top of the hill in the 1770s for merchant and distiller John Ewart with attached landscaped gardens. St Lawrence Church, Morden-Geograph-4321087-by-Stephen-Craven

St Lawrence Church, Morden-Geograph-4321087-by-Stephen-Craven

St Lawrence Church, Morden St Lawrence Church is the Church of England parish church for Morden in the London Borough of Merton. The building is Grade I listed, and located on London Road, at the highest point of Morden, overlooking Morden Park. Morden Parish consists of f ...

. St Lawrence Church is the Church of England parish church for Morden. The building is

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, and located on London Road, at the highest point of Morden, overlooking Morden Park. Located on the Garth family estate, the current church was built in the 1630s in the

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style, and replaced an earlier wooden one from the Saxon period. * Morden Baptist Church. The Church stands with the main entrance facing up Crown Lane on the Morden one way system. In 1990 a very substantial building scheme was undertaken to provide the current improved facilities, including an enclosed concourse, new offices and a sound-proofed creche with a view into the main church.

Sport and Leisure

Morden has a

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club Tooting & Mitcham United F.C. who play at Imperial Fields.

Transport

Nearest tube station: * Morden Underground station Nearest railway stations and

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stops (in order of proximity): *

Morden South railway station Morden South railway station is in Morden in the London Borough of Merton. The station is served by Thameslink trains on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station is very close to the Bait-ul-Futuh Mosque. History Parliame ...

Morden Road tram stop Morden Road is a Tramlink stop in the London Borough of Merton. It is on the site of the former Morden Road railway station on the Wimbledon-West Croydon line, which closed to rail traffic in 1997. The tram stop consists of two platforms on eit ...

South Merton railway station South Merton railway station is located in Morden, the administrative centre of the London Borough of Merton in South London. The station is served by Thameslink trains on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. History Parliamentary ...

* St. Helier railway station *

Phipps Bridge tram stop Phipps Bridge tram stop is a stop on the Tramlink service in the London Borough of Merton. The stop is named after Phipps Bridge Road, an adjacent residential street. The tram stop consists of a single island platform. Immediately to the west o ...

Belgrave Walk tram stop Belgrave Walk tram stop is a stop on the Tramlink service near Mitcham in the London Borough of Merton. The stop is named after Belgrave Walk, an adjacent residential street to the north. The tram stop consists of an island platform which is ac ...

Mitcham tram stop Mitcham tram stop is a Tramlink stop in Mitcham in the London Borough of Merton. The stop is located between Belgrave Walk and Mitcham Junction. It is located just east of the former Mitcham railway station, which closed in 1997. The tram st ...

Local day and night Buses and the garages that serve Morden are: * 80 (Belmont High Down & Downview – Hackbridge Reynolds Close) – ''Go Ahead London – Sutton Garage'' * 93 (Putney Bridge – North Cheam) (24 Hour) – ''Go Ahead London – Sutton Garage'' * 118 (Morden Station – Brixton) – ''Go Ahead London – Merton Garage'' * 154 (Morden Station – West Croydon Bus Station) – ''Go Ahead London – Sutton Garage'' * 157 (Morden Station – Crystal Palace) – ''Arriva London – Thornton Heath Garage'' * 163 (Wimbledon Station – Morden Station) – ''Go Ahead London – Merton Garage'' * 164 (Wimbledon Station – Sutton Station) – ''Go Ahead London – Merton Garage'' * 201 (Morden – Herne Hill) – ''Abellio London – Beddington Cross'' * 293 (Morden Station – Epsom General Hospital) – ''RATP Quality Line – Epsom Garage'' * 413 (Morden Tube Station – Sutton Bus Garage) – ''Go-Ahead London - Merton Garage'' * 470 (Epsom Town Centre – Colliers Wood Tube Station) – ''RATP Quality Line – Epsom Garage'' * K5 (Morden – Ham) – ''RATP Quality Line – Epsom Garage'' * N155 (Morden Station – Aldwych) – ''London General – Sutton Garage''

Notable people associated with Morden

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– Commander of the

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in North America during the

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. *

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– Engineer of London's sanitary system lived in the village for a few years in the 1870s. *

– Lord of the Manor,

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and Chief Justice of Bengal * Alexander Maconochie – Founder of the

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and penal reformer. *

Good Shoes Good Shoes were a four-piece English indie rock band, hailing from Morden, London. Biography Good Shoes was formed by lead singer Rhys Jones and guitarist Steve Leach who often wrote and played music together as a hobby. Rhys and Steve appear ...

– an

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band whose first album, '' Think Before You Speak'', included the track "

Morden Morden is a district and town in south London, England, within the London Borough of Merton, in the ceremonial county of Greater London. It adjoins Merton Park and Wimbledon to the north, Mitcham to the east, Sutton to the south and Worcester Pa ...

" *

Sampha Sampha Lahai Sisay (born 16 November 1988) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer from Morden, South London. Sampha is widely known for his collaborative work with Kendrick Lamar, SBTRKT, Jessie Ware, Drake, Kanye Wes ...

– a singer-songwriter best known for his collaborative work with SBTRKT,

Jessie Ware Jessica Lois Ware (born 15 October 1984) is an English singer, songwriter and broadcaster. Ware came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album, ''Devotion'' (2012), which peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart, produce ...

and

Drake Drake may refer to: Animals * A male duck People and fictional characters * Drake (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the family name * Drake (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * ...

Nearest places

Hackbridge Hackbridge is a suburb in the London Borough of Sutton, south-west London, just over two miles north-east of the town of Sutton itself. It is 8.8 miles (15 km) south-west of Charing Cross. Toponymy The district takes its name from Hack Br ...

Motspur Park Motspur Park, also known locally as West Barnes, is a residential suburb in south-west London, in the New Malden district. It straddles the boroughs of Kingston upon Thames and Merton. Motspur Park owes its identity to the railway station of ...

Raynes Park Raynes Park is a residential suburb, railway station and local centre near Wimbledon, London, and is within the London Borough of Merton. It is situated southwest of Wimbledon Common, to the northwest of Wimbledon Chase and to the east of New M ...

South Wimbledon South Wimbledon is an area of Wimbledon in south-west London in the London Borough of Merton, England. History Toponymy It is marked on an Ordnance Survey map of 1876 as New Wimbledon and on a 1907 map as South Wimbledon. The name is derived fro ...

Sutton Common Sutton Common is the name of former common land and a district and neighbourhood located in Sutton, London. The area is mostly located within the London Borough of Sutton, with some of the streets to the north and west of Sutton Common Park a ...

Gallery

File:Morden baptist church.gif, Morden Baptist Church, Crown Lane File:Bridge at Morden Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1230196.jpg, Bridge at Morden Hall Park File:Morden Hall Park 1.jpg, Morden Hall Park File:Stable Block at Morden Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1230210.jpg, Stable Block at Morden Hall Park. File:The Rose Garden, Morden Hall Park - geograph.org.uk - 1348687.jpg, The Rose Garden, Morden Hall Park

References

External links

British Library Collect Britain archive – Mordon, Surrey, 1780
* Aerial view of Morden town centre in 1926 when the Underground station opened. The first roads have been laid out but the area is still mostly fields. The Crown Inn is visible on the left.
British Pathe News Archive
1930s Newsreel footage of construction of Morden Cinema (download – select low resolution free preview)
Motco.com15 Miles Round London (First edition), J Cary, 1786, MordenOdeon Cavalcade – Morden Cinema, 1960s
{{Authority control Morden Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Merton District centres of London